Listeners, the Medicare for All Podcast has reached an important milestone that all political content creators dream of – we got clipped in an attack ad against one of our favorite people! As we’ve been covering for the last few months, candidates all around the country are campaigning on Medicare for All, which means that Republicans and corporate Dems are freaking the f*** out and trying to figure out how to make universal healthcare look like a bad thing. Friend of the Pod and US Senate Candidate Abdul El Sayed has been getting his fair share of the heat for making Medicare for All the centerpiece of his agenda, so it’s no surprise that we ended up in his opponent’s latest campaign ad! We’ll take a look at this masterpiece of political propaganda, talk about why it feels like an ad FOR Medicare for All, and let you take a second listen to the interview featured in the ad, so you can decide for yourself whose side you’re on!

Plus, as always, we’ve got the latest healthcare news!

Here’s that attack ad again in case you want to get into Mike Rogers’ comments:

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The national political media has been in a frenzy this week about friend-of-the-pod Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate primary victory in Michigan! Sayed made Medicare for All the centerpiece of his campaign, and at the polls, over 700,000 Michiganders got behind that vision of healthcare justice.

But there’s another Medicare for All story unfolding in Michigan – the campaign to win a statewide universal healthcare system in Michigan as a stepping stone to national Medicare for All. Michigan State Representative Carrie Rheingans is leading the charge for universal healthcare in Michigan and organizing with state legislators across the country who are tired of waiting for the federal government to take action. Today she’ll tell us about her work in the Wolverine state and the 50-state strategy to introduce state-level Medicare for All bills in every state in the country.

Plus, as always, we’ve got the latest healthcare news!

Carrie Rheingans represents the 47th District of Michigan in the state legislature. She hosted a panel at Netroots with other state legislators to talk about their work introducing state-based Medicare for All legislation. You can watch it here.

You can connect with One Payer States, a coalition of organizations fighting for state-based Medicare for All here.

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When the U.S. Congress wants to get together, they don’t just check the shared Google calendar for a time when nobody’s using the House floor. Scheduling when or if a bill will ever get discussed or voted on is entirely up to the majority party. These days, that means that lawmakers outside the MAGAverse can’t do some pretty basic parts of their jobs like holding hearings. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has responded with a series of alternative “shadow” hearings on topics like healthcare – you know, life or death stuff that Republicans never seem to get around to talking about. Medicare for All got its turn in the shadows on July 22, with a hearing hosted by Representatives Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell. Today we’re getting a full report-back on the hearing from Kara Sheehan, Political Director for National Nurses United.

Plus, as always, we’ve got the latest healthcare news!

Kara Sheehan is the Political Director of National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in U.S. History!

You can see the full video of the Shadow Hearing here.

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